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University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wants permission to spend an $800,000 donation as she sees fit to help alleviate the school's budget crunch.

Five people were taken to the hospital following a chemical spill at a food plant in a Milwaukee suburb. 

How much is a quarter worth? It depends on when it was created and who you ask.

University of Wisconsin System regents are considering raising application fees. 

PHILLIPS (WAOW) - A Price County judge has ordered three men jailed on $10,000 cash bonds, four days after a massive manhunt for two of them who ran off into the woods near Park Falls, District Attorney Mark Fuhr said Tuesday. 

Authorities allege in newly unsealed court documents that a West Allis man accused of opening fire on a federal agent's car on a Wisconsin interstate shot at other cars as well and had magazines of ammunition, a handgun and a rifle in his vehicle.

On a day Speaker Paul Ryan wanted to talk about the first of several new policy proposals House Republicans are unveiling this month, he instead found himself answering questions about Donald Trump's racist comments about the judge handling the lawsuit against Trump University.

Police officials in Green Bay oppose a plan by a business owner to operate pedal pubs in the city.   

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has trimmed his diet of a food category that's somewhat sacred in "America's Dairyland." 

On the second to last official primary day in the 2016 election, there's still a contest going on for one of the major parties and voters in six states headed to the polls.

Authorities in Ukraine say they have foiled plans to ship bootleg alcohol from Moldova to Ukraine via a pipeline. 

A Japanese boy who was found after being abandoned by his parents as punishment in a forest has been released from a hospital. 

An upstate New York production company's recording of a man threatening people with a gun has sent people scurrying for cover at its office building. 

An Orlando woman is facing charges after being accused of burning her teenage son's hands on a hot stove as punishment for selling marijuana he found under his parents' bathroom sink.

Law enforcement officials are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a woman in a downtown Milwaukee interchange. 

Milwaukee police say two 12-year-old boys and a 13-year-old girl are among six people arrested in the carjackings of two vehicles at gunpoint on the city's south side. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Republican challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan is launching the first television ad of his longshot campaign. Paul Nehlen on Monday unveiled the ad which he says was filmed along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.

Some 9,000 people stuck with delinquent medical bills had their debts forgiven courtesy ofHBO host John Oliver. Oliver, on his "Last Week Tonight" program Sunday, took the action to illustrate a story about the practices of companies that purchase the records of debtors and attempt to collect on them.

Hillary Clinton's presidential run is being lauded as historic as she likely will become the first female Democratic nominee, but she isn't the only woman vying for the job this year. 

After former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus and the victim's emotional letter to her attacker went rival, the assault case made waves on social media, with some questioning why the former Stanford student received so little jail time.